Engineering Maintenance Lead in San Mateo

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. You Have: Experience: You have 5+ years of experience delivering projects that include complex user workflows. Domain Knowledge: You have Android and C++ expertise You are highly skilled at performance tuning, and debugging and fixing production problems. Domain Knowledge: You have some iOS, and Windows experience. You love to pick up new technologies as the landscape evolves. Versatility: You can adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution. A keen interest in developing audio expertise and knowledge, professional audio experience is not required. Creativity: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. Bringing real-time interactivity to build an immersive 3D world should get you thinking about many problems to solve… and make you excited as a result. Professionalism: You take pride in delivering a high quality product and user experience. Skills: C++ programming Experience designing refining and tuning algorithms Troubleshooting bugs and performance issues Background: You have a BS in a STEM related field or equivalent experience. Bonus: Console programming experience (PlayStation, Xbox, etc.) Bonus: Systems-lev

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization's mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY CONTENT SUITABILITY? Join the Content Suitability team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of content on Roblox. Our team is at the forefront of building tools and systems that enable creators to launc

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. WHY SAFETY? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this toolbelt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY BOT DEFENSE? Roblox is a prime target for automated scripts that cause harm to our users, and creators. Join our Bots and Spam team, where you will tackle the critical challenge of safeguarding the platform against sophisticated bot threats. While our current team Backend and ML engineers have made tremendous

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic accounts, content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool-belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. WHY Safety Data Infrastructure To pro-actively find bad actors and protect good users, Roblox needs to ingest enormous amounts of data and make it usable both to our automated detection systems and for human moderators and customer support agents doing investigations. The Safety Data Infrastructure team is addressing these needs w

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. As Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Animation team, you will leverage the Roblox game engine and tools to build groundbreaking experiences that push the boundaries of what is possible on the platform. Your efforts will not only help create amazing content, but more importantly, will help us highlight issues, improve and extend our animation tech, tools and pipeline for all developers. These efforts will enable our game developers to create engaging and delightful experiences for our millions of players. We are looking for a software engineer who is passionate about animation and world class user experiences including both usability and performance. You need to be proficient in C++ and have experience working on animation systems and tools. Prior experience with animation for games / interactive experiences is a huge plus. You Will: Help develop experiences that push the quality bar beyond what was previously thought possible on the platform Analyze existing animation tech and tools and determine what is needed to meet a project's objectives Author documentation on issues, improvements and feature requests for all aspects of character animation tech on Roblox Work closely with gam

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. About the role: Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world. We are entering a major platform transition, evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE where intelligent systems plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators to amplify their output. We are seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of the agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role operating at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code. You will: Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable. Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow. Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy , standing up quantitative and qualitative eval pipelines, including human-in-the-loop, so we ship with confidence. Optimize these systems for latency, throughpu

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Roblox Vision Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences – all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scalabil

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. What You’ll Do: The Marketplace team, part of the Economy org, owns the platform and infrastructure that supports the Avatar customization and Avatar Marketplace within Roblox. As a Senior Engineer on our team, you will lead the work on building personalized and streamlined shopping experiences for over 100M users within Roblox. Beyond this scope, you will be involved with several additional areas also owned by subteams such as: Avatar Identity Scaling and Serving Avatars to tens of millions of users on the platform Building new Avatar customization features and continuously improving user experience Driving users and creators towards high-quality, high-fidelity Avatars that will shape Roblox’s look and feel going forward The systems above power the engine APIs that enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions. The ideal candidate is passionate about understanding customer needs, optimizing performance, and delivering exceptional user experiences. You Have: 3+ years of professional experience in software development Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C#, Go,

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Team The Avatar Team is at the heart of the Roblox experience. The Roblox Avatar defines the identity of every player and is a core pillar of the metaverse. Within this group, the Avatar Heads and Bodies team ensures that these foundational avatar components are high-quality, performant, and reliable at scale. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our User-Generated Content (UGC) Validation engineering initiatives. This role focuses on advancing our existing automation and validation systems to ensure that the rapidly growing ecosystem of 3D marketplace content meets our platform standards. The Role As a Senior Software Engineer for UGC Validation , you will focus on scaling and evolving our automated systems to validate 3D assets uploaded directly to the Roblox marketplace. Your primary responsibility will be to develop engineering solutions that quantitatively enforce our marketplace policies. Rather than building systems from scratch, you will expand upon our established validation frameworks to detect avatar schema compliance, flag geometry-based exploits, and programmatically measure asset quality. In this role, you will serve as a core practical resource for

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Data Access team within Infra / Storage builds EaaS (Entities-as-a-Service), Roblox’s large-scale managed OLTP access and management platform powering tens of millions of QPS across thousands of services. EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful systems at massive scale without requiring deep database expertise. The team operates at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, reliability engineering, and platform architecture — solving hard infrastructure problems that directly impact Roblox-wide scale and stability. As a Senior Software Engineer you will work on some of Roblox’s hardest backend infrastructure challenges around scalability, reliability, workload governance, adaptive flow control, and distributed systems. You Will Build and evolve EaaS, Roblox’s managed OLTP access platform powering tens of millions of QPS across hundreds of services. Design infrastructure that abstracts distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent, safe, and highly productive developer experience. Drive reliability and scal

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. You'll build the agentic AI system that powers creation for millions of Roblox creators. The Assistant team is converging Studio Assistant (desktop) and Build (mobile) into a single cloud-native architecture — one harness, one tool set, one eval framework. You'll work across the full stack: cloud orchestration, LLM integration and model routing, tool/skill execution, and the creator-facing client. The system orchestrates multi-step creation workflows end-to-end: planning, code generation, asset creation, and automated testing. You Will: Help and understand the needs of the community that uses our software, from beginning artists to professional scripters and designers. Take ownership and responsibility for designing, building, testing, and deploying services within the Roblox ecosystem. Work on a variety of unique technical challenges within complex systems. Be a technical bar-raiser for high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term planning. Develop fellow engineers on the team. You Have: 5+ years of experience shipping high-complexity software and supporting mission-critical applications at scale. Experience architecting, designing, and leading implementation across a wide range

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Engineering Manager, Home Infrastructure The Home Infrastructure team builds the mission-critical backend and data systems that power Roblox’s Homepage and Experience Details Page, two of the highest-traffic surfaces on Roblox. These surfaces reach the vast majority of Roblox’s daily active users and are core drivers of discovery, engagement, retention, and platform growth. We are a full-stack product infrastructure team responsible for content distribution across Roblox. Our systems support multiple modes of user interaction, including exploratory browsing, directed discovery, and personalized content recommendations across the many types of content that make up the Roblox ecosystem. This team sits at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, machine learning-powered personalization, data infrastructure, and product experimentation. We partner closely with Machine Learning, Data Science, Product, Design, Frontend, Ads, Marketplace, Virtual Economy, and other teams across Roblox to build the platforms that help users find the most relevant and engaging content. As Engineering Manager for Home Infrastructure, you will lead a team of Backend and Data Engineers responsible for the e

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Infrastructure Compute Site Reliability Engineering mission is to own and manage the successful operation of our underlying cell infrastructure system, along with elements of service discovery, secrets management and related software layers. We’re looking for a skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong programming skills to help us build Roblox's private cloud, productionize our growing Kubernetes-based infrastructure, and institute reliability best practices across the Roblox Compute team. You will: Design and Develop systems & libraries that promote fault-tolerance and resilience, automate much of the management and lifecycle of our clusters, and ensure systems are observable. Promote and Institute reliability best practices across the Infra Compute group, drive common reliability initiatives. Provides collaborative technical reviews and operational guidance to strengthen system reliability. Build, Automate and Standardize process automation to create a "golden path" of tooling and platform support that powers the fundamental Roblox ecosystem. Create Tooling that provides production guardrails, by evaluating release candidate capacity with load testing tooling before de

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. Why Safety? At Roblox, we strive to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and the Safety organization’s mission is to become the leader in civil immersive online communities. We systematically detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We cover a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, classifiers for 3D models, experimentation, automation, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers. In doing so, we keep Roblox safe, civil, and inclusive, and we foster positive relationships between people around the world. Why Safety Foundation? Safety Foundation is the infrastructure backbone that powers safety across Roblox. Every piece of content reviewed, every moderation action taken, every safety workflow running anywhere on the platform flows through systems built by this team. We are the platform that other safety teams build on — and righ

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators. At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone. The Content Platform team at Roblox powers the infrastructure behind every asset used across the Roblox ecosystem—enabling creators and developers to bring their visions to life at global scale. From 3D models and images to videos and audio, our platform manages the complete lifecycle of all assets essential for immersive experiences, supporting one of the largest services in the world at over 100+ million requests per second. Our mission is to deliver a seamless, reliable, and innovative content system that empowers creators, supports record-breaking games, and ensures the highest standards of performance and safety for our community. As the Technical Director for Content Platform, you will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams responsible for the technical and product vision of Roblox’s asset infrastructure. You will own the lifecycle of every asset—from creation and upload to storage, indexing, delivery, and rendering in the game client. Your leadership will be critical in scaling our systems, optimizing distributed infrastructure, and enabling new possibilities for creators and players alike. You Will: Define and drive the long-term strategy, architecture, and priorities for the Cont